I have decided to use the following poems in my essay - The Poison Tree - William Blake · La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats ( La Belle )

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Poem Comparisons Essay -  

            GCSE Coursework

Mark Jenkins 10 JC/ Set 1

We were given the choice to write an essay on any two of

the following poems,

*        The Poison Tree - William Blake

*        My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

*        La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats

*        To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell

*        Mariana - Lord Tennyson Alfred.

All the poems were very interesting and thought provoking,

and I have decided to use the following poems in my essay.

These poems are

 

*                The Poison Tree - William Blake

*                La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats ( La Belle

)

I have chosen these two poems because I feel that they give

a similar feeling of Infatuation, Obsession, Love and Anger. I

will look at these emotions in the two poems, and relate them

to events in real life.

I will now write a brief overview of each poem.

The Poison Tree is very simply set out, with only 4 stanzas,

containing 4 lines in each

(simple couplets). This poem shows the events that could

happen when anger is kept bottled up, and the short nature of

the poem emphasises the emotionally charged events, almost

as if we were there experiencing them. The poem is writen in

almost the same form as a `parable` from the bible, it is short

and has a sharp meaning. I also think that the constant rhyme

scheme (aabb) gives the poem a sort of nursery rhyme effect,

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short and to the point. This rhyme scheme is widely used in

songs today, mostly pop songs where they have a regular

rythym.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci means ' The Beautiful Woman

With No Mercy' in English, and it is about a knight who meets

a lady out in a meadow

(meads). He seems to fall in love with her and does

everything for her, like make her garlands and necklaces.

 

" I made a garland for her head,

            And bracelets too, ...

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